Huh… I guess North Korea hasn’t done the social media ban for teenagers like other “genius” places.
There’s just no better way to show you are morally superior than to execute your own kids.
The Irony is that squid game can absolutely be used by propaganda to show how bad the south is. Just do some edit to present-it as a documentary rather than a fiction.
Any criticism of power structures in general is a threat to dictators.
But it’s not as if Squid Game is about the government oppressing people, it’s about a gang of criminals exerting power over people they kidnapped…oh
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Yeah, it was very clearly a critique of capitalism.
It’s a critique of class differences, which is not limited to capitalism. North Korea is not a country I would call capitalistic, yet there are extreme class differences. Maybe that’s why they don’t want their people to watch Squid Game. This type of critique is also not limited to Squid Game, it can be seen in a lot of K-Dramas and korean films, Squid Game just shows it in a more brutal way.
Sure sure, but they chose to focus on monetary wealth, property, and debt as the primary reason all of them are in the game, and their struggle to run around and make something for themselves being the entertainment for the ones above them.
Obviously, all the fake socialisms in the world are worse, and the show even touches on that when the woman talks about her village in North Korea dying of disease, getting burned alive, and her parents being shot while fleeing. But the show is still a critique of capitalism.
A common joke is that a North Korean squid games would have people fighting to earn food instead of money.
If you like Squid Game, I recommend the 8 Show. There’s no killing in it but it shows how fucked up things can get without killings. And it has social commentary about class differences
Radio Free Asia up to its usual tricks I see.
US funded propaganda outfit seeds further outlandish attack pieces.
This is Amnesty International, not Radio Free Asia.
The actual propaganda is China trying to convince you that North Korea isn’t a despotic authoritarian hellhole, because as their largest trading partner, why don’t they exert their influence to change that? Because any threat to Kim’s regime is a threat to the CCP. So they have to convince YOU that everything you read about North Korea is actually US propaganda lies.
This is not saying that the source for this is Radio Free Asia, but that they’ve also reported similar.
The source for this article was nothing other than defector testimony and references to Radio Free Asia.
The veracity of a news piece is only as good as the veracity of its weakest source. If you have a news story about dental work that seems legit, but then it starts referencing Chip Skylark, your alarm bells should start going off.
Um, do you have some contrary evidence to present? Or is your position just “US bad”?
The onus of proof of Yeonmi Park level claims isn’t on the skeptical
I love that you give another source and then claim propaganda.
Squid game in real life!?!?!?
Sorry not sorry
Yes, it the US it’s a reality show called ICE.
